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- nmanguy, on 04/16/2009, -3/+89You know, I'm one of the few people who actually likes the ribbon in Office 2007.
- lornefs, on 04/16/2009, -0/+71"both versions will be available sometime next year"
is that we call confirming dates now? - jaysont34, on 04/16/2009, -7/+60Anyone else prefer Office 2007 to 2003?
- KrazyKoala, on 04/16/2009, -2/+47Its fun to trash Microsoft, but you're a fool if you think Open Office or other alternatives are better than Microsoft Office.
- datdamonfoo, on 04/16/2009, -1/+27I'm pretty sure Office comes with more than just a word processor...
- rpeters, on 04/16/2009, -16/+42just something else to download on the torrents...
- Ymeg, on 04/16/2009, -0/+25Saves me a lot of time.
- atezun, on 04/16/2009, -1/+25It pretty much depends on your work flow. For my needs, the ribbon is much faster than scanning through the menus for an oft-used item.
- DjOverEZ, on 04/16/2009, -0/+23And if you want to talk about a company purposely writing poor code for a different operating system, look no farther than iTunes on the PC.
- robotfriendly, on 04/16/2009, -3/+24Absolutely. The ribbon took some getting used to, but I wouldn't go back, especially with Excel.
- mdoom, on 04/16/2009, -0/+21I actually prefer the ribbon interface. Sure it can be improved upon, but I like it better than the menu system.
- Projektorboy, on 04/16/2009, -2/+20With 8GB of RAM installed I wonder who's going to be the guy to try to crash Excel by filling up data to to the quintillionth row.
- winterorchid, on 04/16/2009, -0/+18A ton of features were added with 2007.
- manstein01, on 04/16/2009, -3/+202007 is kind of nice once you get used to the ribbon interface.
But it's not worth the 3 figure upgrade. Actual new features are non existent. Office 2003 works fine for everyone who uses it. - MtheoryX, on 04/16/2009, -1/+18I'm a fan of iWork, but let's be honest here: iWork doesn't even compare to Office.
They are similar, but Office contains much, MUCH more than Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. - Krumm, on 04/16/2009, -2/+18One of the best features are that it makes rush jobs look like you spent ages on them, quick colour change, 3D graph, and a bevel some images and you can shine over some poor bugger who spent hours tweaking stuff in Office XP.
Multiple conditional formats, ability to show a formatted graph in an individual cell, and much better handling and storage of crazy big sheets make it well worth while in my book.
Open Office is fine, but only for basic stuff, as it's just not compatible with enough features of MS Office to be able to shoehorn it into the workplace yet... maybe in a few more revisions. - lornefs, on 04/16/2009, -7/+22Um, ok.
Keep on believing. - nullcodes, on 04/16/2009, -0/+15Calling the 13th of something as number 14 hoping to avoid bad luck would only work if the presumed numerology devil can't count.
- datdamonfoo, on 04/16/2009, -2/+16Really? Powerpoint needs only 10 functions?
- mdoom, on 04/16/2009, -1/+14I wouldn't say few. A lot of people do like it.
A lot of other people do prefer the menu system, but I always wonder how much of that is resistence to change, and unfamilarity. - XEusioN, on 04/16/2009, -0/+13There's a reason why power users get more work done in less time than those who only use 10 features. It's called useful value. They didn't put the features there for fun...
- mdoom, on 04/16/2009, -0/+13Excel already has column and row limits...
...although I wonder if they are increased now for the 64-bit version - andehbrown, on 04/16/2009, -3/+16"Theoretically, 64-bit systems can support up to 16.8 million terabytes, though other system limitations make that quantity of RAM unfeasible at the present time"
Damn, and I was just about to buy 16.8 billion sticks of 1GB DDR2. - glittler, on 04/16/2009, -0/+13nope ribbons for all now
- ryanize, on 04/16/2009, -0/+13I agree, that's not a confirmation. Buried for an inaccurate headline.
- jakem1, on 04/16/2009, -0/+13If the jump from Word 2003 to Word 2007 is anything to go by I'd say the answer is quite a bit.
- decapitor, on 04/16/2009, -14/+26Let's hope they shuffle every button around to a new place and add absolutely nothing new like the 03-07 transition. That was fun.
- RudeTurnip, on 04/16/2009, -0/+11The ribbon means less people come to me asking for help with Excel. It exposes a lot of Excel's hidden functionality. The worst thing that Office used to do was hide the "least used" items, which basically made it impossible for your average user to learn anything. I always turned that off whenever I came over to help out.
The one thing that Excel still does by default which I hate is Autocomplete...this is a bad, bad BAD feature to have turned on if any part of your job involves typing in stock ticker symbols. That also gets turned off around here. - XEusioN, on 04/16/2009, -1/+12Although it took me quite a while to get used to the ribbon, and I'll admit I still have trouble finding some things at times...the ribbon makes many tasks quicker and easier to pull off than the old-school nested menu system.
- homesnatch, on 04/16/2009, -0/+10Powerpoint is for people who want to waste time instead of doing real work.
- temporarysanity, on 04/16/2009, -0/+10You know they had buttons before, right? And that you could add just about any of the menu items as a button? 'Cause, honest, some people didn't know that. With that setup, there was no need to depend on fixed, unchangeable ribbon crap. Ok, maybe not entirely crappy, but try using one version at work and the other at home...Not Microsoft's fault, I suppose, but still, I see now other companies following suit. Which is problematic: there was some minimal standardization across software packages, where you knew you had file, edit, tools, preferences, help and so on. Now that's gone away. I suppose Microsoft gets some money by licensing the right to use the patented ribbon(?)
- Twinnie, on 04/16/2009, -1/+10I don't see why people knock Office, it's the only MS product that has actually improved without reasonable competition, even before OpenOffice became half-decent. The ribbon menu is still a little confusing to me cos I'm stuck with 2003 at work but I like it and if it became necessary I'd willingly accept the learning curve since everyone I know who gets to use it certainly prefers it.
- exec0extreme, on 04/16/2009, -27/+36Anyone else prefer Office 2003 to 2007?
- RuntPacket, on 04/17/2009, -0/+8Still using Ashton-Tate's Multimate here. Have to since Windows and word doesn't support my Tandy daisy-wheel printer.
- buckchoris, on 04/16/2009, -4/+12Still using Office XP :D
- mdoom, on 04/17/2009, -0/+8@bigbird Agreed. However at the same time, there is a lot to be said for, once you are attempting to work with that volume of data, some form of database system would work better than a spreadsheet.
- jakem1, on 04/16/2009, -0/+8Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007 ...
- Balath, on 04/16/2009, -0/+8Mitch Hedberg would have things to say about this.
- orb_nsc, on 04/16/2009, -1/+8Like you ever paid for Office in the first place.
- fumbduck, on 04/16/2009, -1/+8dont tell me. sometime in 2010?
- mdscinto, on 04/16/2009, -14/+21yaaaa more secluded menus!
- danwallace, on 04/16/2009, -0/+7I love it myself, but I work in Access 2007 8 hours a day.
- KrazyKoala, on 04/16/2009, -0/+7Equations are much better in Word in 2007, and presenter mode is much better in Powerpoint. You can have a ton more rows and columns in Excel. File saves are smaller...
- longbow486, on 04/16/2009, -4/+10i love how they skipped Office 13
- burketo, on 04/16/2009, -1/+7I really hope they start including ms visio as standard. It says that visio and project are "part of the suite" in that article, but usually they have to be bought extra. It really pisses me off because virtually all computers have office, but none of them ever have visio.
- decapitor, on 04/16/2009, -3/+9Besides changing the default file format and causing me to have to show about 50 people how to install the compatibility pack and or xml converter what were those again?
- XeroXenith, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6I dugg you up before, but I had to bury you for "close-minded M$ fanboys". OO has its benefits, but so does Office - be reasonable.
- jiggawatt, on 04/16/2009, -1/+7I love Office 2007. I basically realized that Office 2007 was hard to pick up at first because I had to untrain myself from previous versions to rely on all of the hidden menus and options that existed in places that did not make much sense intuitively.
Office 2007 and Visual Studio are two areas Microsoft has improved on, as opposed to vista. - benologist, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6It's not about being ignorant and it's probably even true you only need 10 functions... *but* those 10 functions are different for each of the 100s of millions of people using Office.
- ericcc, on 04/16/2009, -1/+7I do love OpenOffice but the ribbon interface (Okay lets face it they're really just tabs) on MS Office is wonderful. I hated it at first but once you get used to it you realise how much better it is than drop down menus.
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